Allison Kaplan Sommer, Tel Aviv,\u00a0Apr. 28, 2022<\/p>\n
Despite skepticism from Arab and Jewish friends alike, groups of Israeli Arabs have flown to Poland for the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony<\/a>: \u2018How can we coexist with Jews if we don\u2019t know their history?\u2019<\/p>\n When Nadia Ibrahim Azizi told friends she would be traveling to Poland for the March of the Living ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on Holocaust Remembrance Day, she recalled that \u201cyou could see the puzzled looks on their faces.\u201d<\/p>\n Nadia, 42, together with her 36-year-old sister Janet Soury, both Arabs from Jaffa, arrived in Poland on Monday as part of a group of 27 Arab Israelis who will hold a ceremony at Auschwitz<\/a> after visiting the Jewish community in Krakow.<\/p>\n In preparation for the trip, the sisters visited the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Center. While both were educated at Christian schools and took part in coexistence programs, it was their first visit to the museum and memorial in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n